Personalized Learning Planning

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Goals for PLP:

• All students have opportunities to reach their full potential through inspired teaching, personalized learning, goal setting, reflection, and relevant career and community-based activities.

• All educators are actively engaged in making relevant connections, infusing employability skills into their curriculum and instructional approaches, and supporting students throughout their academic and career planning process.

• All learning coaches are knowledgeable of and involved with their student’s goals and plans and are engaged in supporting their student through the PLP process.

• All schools embed the 7 Mindsets across their personalized learning communities, curriculums, and school culture.

• All stakeholders are aware of the PLP process through collaborative communication.

Our Personalized Learning Planning encourages all students to be strong critical thinkers, solve real-world problems, persevere, be competent socially and emotionally, and make more informed choices. The PLP starts in Kindergarten and is linked to many areas including those listed below:

How does Personalized Learning Planning help a student?

This process is all about exploring – there are no “mistakes” in this process. Students can, and are encouraged to, modify their plans at any time. This process:

• Helps students find the relevance in what they are learning and increases academic motivation

• Ensures ALL students have a plan for success after high school including the options to Enroll, Enlist, Employ

• Helps inform a student’s investment in post-high school education

What is included in a Personalized Learning Plan?

The PLP guides students as they reflect, learn, and grow from their education including Academic Readiness, Career Readiness, and Social-Emotional Readiness that happens in classrooms, homerooms, and outside the classroom. Our PLP scope includes a student’s unique:

• Skills, interests, achievements, experiences, activities, service learning, and resume

• Personality traits, learning styles, work values, and work skills

• Career Clusters and Career Pathways of interests

• Assessment results (STAR, Aspire, Forward, PSAT, ACT, AP)

• Reflection and setting Academic and Personal Goals

When does a student begin developing their PLP?

Students begin the PLP process in K-3rd grades and will create their plan in 4th-12th grades. The plan is worked on primarily during Homeroom at the high school with:

• Activities for students at each grade level (highlighted on the other side of this sheet)

• Lessons created by School Counselors and the Personalized Learning Coordinator

• Xello is used to help students capture their plan - each student has a unique login and password

What is the Learning Coaches Role in this process?

All DCA students have a Learning Coach (LC) to support them in their academic and future planning. The PLP process is a part of that support.

• LCs are encouraged to sit down with their student to discuss the process, review their plan, and help them select learning opportunities that align with their goals – each LC has a unique login and password for Xello to view their student’s information and planning

• LCs will ensure that students understand the importance of attending the bi-weekly Homerooms

• Families may connect with a School Counselor to request course progression for a specific career

Destinations Career Academy is committed to supporting every student to have a voice and choice in their education that supports their identity and ensures a post-graduation plan. To ensure that every student graduate college and career ready, all students will create a Personalized Learning Plan.

We believe it’s essential for students to explore who they are—both as individuals and as part of a community—while envisioning their future and mapping their path forward. Our personalized learning plan process helps students discover their strengths, interests, and goals —and puts them on the road to success.

The enrollment page will give you resources to research, plan and discover all there is to know about schooling after high school. Whether you are looking at a technical school or four-year school we are here to help you with this important decision and make the process easier. This page includes resources for researching, planning, applying, and paying for college.

This page will give you resources for all our military branches. It will allow you to compare each branch, the careers they offer, search for a recruiter and plan for next steps.

This page offers the latest job market information and supports students looking to enter the workforce. Students can also research youth apprenticeship positions across Wisconsin. There is a wealth of information for our future workforce on this page!

What’s Your Destination Day is a monthly event organized by your Counselors, Work-Based Learning Coordinator, and Career Learning Coordinator. These guest speaker series are scheduled two times a month and focus on careers, training and employment. Each month highlights one of our pathways. During these times, students get to connect with industry professionals as well as institutions that support training within that specific pathway.

See our monthly schedule below:

• Construction & Engineering: October
• Health Sciences: November
• Information Technology: December/January
• Business Administration & Management: February
• Agriculture & Natural Resources: March/April
• Law & Criminal Justice: May

Interesting in being a speaker? We’d love to have you! Reach out to sarmitage@wivcs.org

DCA has a variety of clubs and organizations for students to participate in. Students are welcome to sign up for as many as they want to participate in. See links below for more information!